[Biggar], a town in Lanarkshire, birthplace of Dr. John Brown and of the Gladstone ancestry.
[Biglow], imaginary author of poems in the Yankee dialect, written by James Russell Lowell.
[Bijapur`], city in the presidency of Bombay, once the capital of an extensive kingdom, now deserted, but with remains of its former greatness.
[Bilba`o] (50), capital of the Basque prov. of Biscay, in Spain; a commercial city of ancient date, famous at one time for its steel, specially in Queen Elizabeth's time, when a rapier was called a "bilbo."
[Bilderdijk, Willem], Dutch poet, born at Amsterdam (1756-1831).
[Bile], a fluid secreted from the blood by the liver to aid in digestion, the secretion of which is most active after food.
[Billaud-Varennes, Jean Nicolas], "a grim, resolute, unrepentant" member of the Jacobin Club; egged on the mob during the September massacres in the name of liberty; was president of the Convention; assisted at the fall of Robespierre, but could not avert his own; was deported to Surinam, and content to die there rather than return to France, which Bonaparte made him free to do; died at Port-au-Prince (1756-1819).
[Billaut, Adam], the carpenter poet, called "Maître Adam," born at Nevers, and designated "Virgile au Rabot" (a carpenter's plane); d. 1662.
[Billings, Robert William], architect, born in London; delineator of old historical buildings; his great work "Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland," richly illustrated; was engaged in the restoration of old buildings, as well as delineating them (1813-1874).
[Billingsgate], a fish-market in London, below London Bridge; also a name given to low, coarse language indulged in there.